Assessment of Key Success Factors in Construction Projects: The Case of Power Transmission Construction Projects in Ethiopian Electric Power
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2022-05
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Addis Ababa University
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There is a plan by the government of Ethiopia to put Ethiopia under the list of middle-income countries by 2025. This is planned to be achieved by working on the development of industries. The key for development of industries availability of infrastructures. Thus, along with other the development of vital physical infrastructures, the energy sector is one of the key enablers to transform the country in to a middle-income country by the planned year. Thus, this has prompted Ethiopian Electric Power to initiate construction of new generation and associated transmission infrastructures. Even though employers/clients, engineers, contractors, project managers and other project stakeholders regard a project executed on schedule, within budget, and according to scope and quality to be successful, construction of such mega projects are intricate and perplexing in nature and performance related issues such as schedule overruns, cost overruns, deficiency in funding, poor quality, poor awareness of safety issues, poor planning, deprived project management practices and problem during design and many other factors have variously contributed against the success of construction of power transmission (PT) infrastructures in the energy sector. This study surveyed factors influencing the success of power transmission construction projects in Ethiopia focusing on the case of Ethiopian Electric Power. The study had the following objectives: To evaluate the influence of regulatory frameworks on the success of power transmission infrastructure construction projects in EEP; To examine the impact of project funding on the success of power transmission infrastructure construction projects in EEP; To analyze the impact of involvement of stakeholders on success of power transmission infrastructure construction projects in EEP and Study the impact of project management capability on the success of power transmission infrastructure construction projects in EEP . The study adopted a descriptive research survey design with a target group from the Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) and contractors working in PT projects in EEP. The total number of individuals in the target group was 98. Since the population was not too much, the whole population was selected as sample. The primary data gathering instrument was self-administered questionnaire. The data collected was analyzed, applying SPSS data analysis software, quantitatively, using descriptive statistics; frequency distributions, mean and percentages. Findings revealed that 83.7% of respondents indicated that there was very high and high influence of regulatory framework on success of construction of PT infrastructure projects at EEP; project funding was indicated to have very highly and highly influenced success of construction of PT infrastructure projects by 90.5% of the respondent; 82.7% of respondents agreed that project management organizational structure had very high influence and high influence on the success of construction of PT infrastructure projects at EEP and involvement of stakeholders was rated to have a very high influence and high influence on the success of construction of PT infrastructure projects at EEP by 85.7% of the respondents. Thus, in conclusion, the research illustrated that the impact of the identified factors on the success of PT infrastructure projects at EEP was at least high or very high as most of the respondents have agreed on it. The study, hence, recommended mindful consideration and management of these studied factors from inception to implementation of PT infrastructure projects at EEP. Making sure that laws, regulation & policies are available, ensuring the enforcement of these laws, regulation & policies, ensuring adequate funding and cash flows, building project management capacity of clients, consultants and contractors, and involvement and proper management of stakeholders at each phase of a project would be of paramount importance for success of projects